Ikr?? Did you hear about that one tech bro Nazi who wormed his way into the government?!
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2025
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Or how about Vance’s mentor Peter Thiel? Did he forget about him?
Sounds like they want to limit “bad” tech companies but reward the ring kissers.
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Translation: he thinks they're not fascist enough.
That is, unfortunately, what I think this means, too.
HOW THE FUCK DOES HE THINK HE GOT ELECTED
He's playing a part.
Yeah that is why he wants to stop it, so others can't use it to get elected. 😜
Blink twice if you're locked in a tech billionaire's basement right now
AI Vance is giving interviews while the real Vance is locked up in Altman's $500bn black site. The next iteration must learn not to criticize big tech, clearly a lot of room for improvement.
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Funny thing for a guy who just got bankrolled into the vice presidency by big tech to say.
Also, shut the fuck up, no one cares what a vice president thinks.
You don't understand. This is tech tribal war.
"Big Tech" is Apple, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Meta. Companies which were fully allied with the Democrats, and which were king of the tech hill until now.
Musk, Thiel and Ellison (Tesla, Palantir and Oracle) are allied with Trump. Lets call them "Tech B".
Vance is doing code speak for: Tech B is gonna break Big Tech up and take top spot.
And Big Tech knows this, which is why they are scrambling to get into Trumps good graces and trying to get Trump on their side.
They have more money and influence right now and they are trying to leverage that to keep top spot.
And Trump is just letting the two teams bid up each other for his favour.
Yeah, except there have been defections from Big Tech to Tech B, the prime example being Meta. Zuckerbot has gone and kissed the ring, and has shifted Meta to push more rightwing lies. And OpenAI has been Musk-adjacent from its start, so I'm not sure where it should go. And I'd use Xitter as the Musk example rather than Tesla, since Tesla's primarily a carmaker, not a tech company, despite its doing clever things with batteries now and then.
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If Harris had won, I think I'd want to hear Tim Walz' opinion on everything. In his own words, live on a stream or something like that. I bet it would've been absolutely wild to hear this Midwestern dad give his takes on AI.
Edit: grammar mistakes
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Help the poor! (by cutting taxes for the rich)
Fix social media! (by forcing them to allow hate speech)
Stop the war! (by forcing Ukraine to surrender)
Fight inflation! (by imposing tariffs on everything)
End genocide! (by encouraging them to finish the genocide already so we can build some hotels over the charred corpses)
End the housing crisis! (By ejecting all the brown people and barring the CDC from preventing the next pandemic)
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JD is starting to realize that there is a second group chat
Peter Thiel's mole says that? Maybe Peter Thiel is hoping to take over Google for cheap or something
They sure don't understand irony, do they?
I read this as him attempting to stand up to Elon and regain some of the political relevance he had before he joined the Trump ticket. Of course, it's not gonna work. He's gonna get curb-stomped (potentially literally, at this point), and by 2028, the Democrats will be campaigning with him.
Shame it's too late for the Democrats to wheel out Henry Kissinger and Robert E Lee to campaign with.
It's 2032. The Democratic ticket is Mike Pence and J.D. Vance. Their key issue is immigration, where they argue that immigrants should be sent to labor camps instead of exterminated. They are easily defeated by Trump, who's entire campaign consists of telling incoherent stories about celebrities until he trails off into a series of racial slurs. The Democrats believe they lost by being too soft on immigration, but they're optimistic that they can have a productive relationship with Vice President Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Vance: But Peter, won't everyone realize that you just bought the vice presidency by supporting me?
Thiel: Just tell them "tech people bad" or some shit, they'll be none the wiser.
Yeah we know. They're using it to help your idiot boss, ya lumpy potato.
Vice President JD Vance said Saturday that “we believe fundamentally that big tech does have too much power,” despite the prominent positioning of tech CEOs at President Trump’s inauguration last week.
Oh - but not those Big Tech guys, they're cool.
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JD Vance says some tech companies won't play along with Proj. 2025.
Oh hey, he's saying the thing the Democrats should have campaigned on.
Something we actually agree on.
100% guarantee this pissfit about big tech is just because Musk is sitting where he thought he'd be.
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You really don't, though.
You mean you want technology that serves the public good.
Propeller Cap over here is just pissy he hasn't hijacked it like a government.
"... too much more power than me"
First true thing couch fucker has said considering Big Tech basically owns the Trump admin.
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Wasn’t he hand selected by Peter Thiel?
Which means he will likely be found not to be part of "Big Tech". For some reason.
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Good cop bad cop?
Probably. If I were Vance, whether the Never Trump thing was genuine or I was just a power hungry asshole, I'd be positioning myself to look like the sane one in the administration so that I could remove Trump via the 25th in 2027 and be hailed as the guy who saved America from him. I'd also be egging Trump and Musk on to be as terrible as possible as publicly as possible.
I agree, but I also think the same about him (and he basically has no power until Trump chokes on a filet-o-fish).
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We got what we want, now we vilify them.
Where have we seen this before? Oh right. Fascism.
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Nobody bought the $JD coin 😢😭
They are literally pulling a Hitler/Putin. What the actual fuck. Have people in the party say things that that your opponents agree with just to give the illusion that the ruler is fair and has a wide variety of view points to consider.
This administration needs to be over last Monday.
Big tech has too much power!
That's why we let them pay us large sums of money so that we let them do whatever the fuck they want. Apparently Facebook now blocks distrowatch links, one of the bigger sites about Linux, and Linux got labeled as something something evil.. this, of cout, has nothing to do with Microsoft, it's just totally coincidental
A broken clock is right twice a day.
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